Attempts to obtain information in regard to children's willingness to skip passages when answering reading comprehension test questions. (RB)

Revised version of paper presented to the annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 1972. (NQ)

Describes the progress of the Day Care Center program in Talladega County, Alabama, started in 1970 by a small Office of Economic Opportunities grant to the Talladega-Clay-Randolph Community Action Committee. (Author/JM)

Pinpoints several problems in youth services in general and in rural areas in particular. Suggests strategies for overcoming these obstacles: packaging services which meet child's total needs, establishing youth service bureaus to coordinate families and human services resources, and using natural helping networks of the community. (Author/AH)

Suggests the effects of poverty may be more debilitating on rural youth than on urban youth due to differences in background, i.e., lower educational level of parents, lower family income, cultural isolation, fewer social services, and marriage at an earlier age. Discusses health problems, housing inadequacies, and fatherless families. (AH)

Describes the extent to which federal and state funds are being used in agricultural education. Discusses distribution of funds and problem areas: curriculum management and development; special needs; urban and rural youth; equity and civil rights; education to work transition, etc. (CT)

Results showed that the performance of the suburban and urban 10-year-olds on a Piaget-based map drawing task did not differ significantly, while the Appalachian children performed significantly better than one or both of the other groups on three out of the four spatial concepts. (JMB)

Examines the levels of occupational awareness of rural elementary school students and the influence local environment has on this awareness. Data from Muscoda, Wisconsin indicate that, as students increase in age and intelligence, they have more accurate knowledge of occupations. Local environment does influence youths' occupational aspirations.…

Rural offspring of the back-to-the-land people of the late 1960s appear to have substituted reading for television viewing as a primary pastime. (LH)

Investigated rural high school students' perceptions of two major secondary school role models' (teachers and popular peers) solutions to five ontological and axiological problem spheres. Some seemingly contradictory findings are discussed in terms of institutional demands that often force teachers to model behaviors that neither they nor society…

Analyzes the relationship between participation in an experimental negative income tax program and the school performance of rural children, using four measures of school performance--attendance, comportment grades, academic grades, and standardized achievement test scores. Available from: Secretary, The American Economic Association, 1313 21st…

Results of a household survey from rural Ethiopia indicate that rural children commonly participated in household and agricultural work from a very early age, and more than half of working children had never attended school. In the context of subsistence economies such as these, initial policy interventions should aim to make the combination of…

Examines the effect of the British educational scholarships created by the 1921 Corn Production Acts (Repeal). Points out that the act enabled sons and daughters of agricultural laborers to attend secondary schools in order to obtain agricultural education. Concludes that the scholarships helped the rural youth, the agricultural economy, and the…